ANOTHER VARIETY OF MEN BEHIND THE GUNS
These men are twice men behind the guns in the cause of America. They subscribed
more than five million dollars to the Liberty Loan, and they are doing their bit to furnish
the battle front with the artillery that must ultimately hammer an unstoppable hole through
the lines of the enemy.
comes out of the hold and is dumped into
a bin. From this bin it flows by gravity
into big coal and ore cars to be hauled to
the furnaces, or else is delivered to the
buckets of the great cantilever bridge,
which carry it across to the big stock
pile. Once it took a week, with a regi
ment of men, to unload a small ship,
whereas now half a day and a corporal's
guard can send the biggest ore carrier
afloat on its way empty.
There are several other types of un
loaders, some of them having huge hori-
zontal beams reaching out over the
hatches of the ship and forming track
ways for the big buckets that run out to
the end on carriages, and then drop down
on a cable into the hold for a load of ore.
Whoever has watched a farmer store hay
away in his barn with a modern hay fork
will understand the rles the beam and
the cable play.
The mining and navigation season be
ing only eight months long, the ships
must bring in enough ore to keep the fur
naces running during the additional four